When you consider the sound of sport you may think of the grunting of a tennis player in the midst of a shot. You may also think of the twack of a golf swing or the blare of a time out horn among the squeaking of shoes on a basketball court. There are sounds which necessarily recall […]

Over my many years as a career sleeper, I have, of course, considered the conditions under which the best sleep is to be had. I was not only intrigued by which music was more conducive to my sleep but to others’ (as I had a college dorm mate who took afternoon naps to very loud […]

This will hopefully be a continuing post regarding flexi discs and their impact on the music world. Recently in Bhutan they have issued a new postage stamp — a listenable flexi-disc postage stamp. The interest in flexible audio records has been forever linked to an inexpensive and decent quality way of distributing music (barring the […]